Category: Wisdom Traditions

Today’s One-Liner (#43)

Quakers speak of three qualities open to everyone: boundless happiness, absolute fearlessness and constant difficulty. –Dorothee Sölle, Essential Writings

Today’s One-Liner (#42)

Think, when you look at people, at their recent birth, their childhood, or their imminent death—and you will love them: such frail creatures.  –Abram Tertz, A Voice from the Chorus

Know Your Purpose

Every man should, indeed, carefully compare his force with his undertaking; for though we ought not to live only for our own sakes, and though therefore danger or difficulty should not be avoided merely because…

Today’s One-Liner (#41)

With her formidable intellect, her wide-ranging knowledge of languages, literatures, philosophy and science, she was the greatest woman of the century.  –Rosemary Ashton, George Eliot: A Life

Next Door

Such people do not realize that by alleviating the suffering of those before your eyes, practicing benevolence and living rightly, our good influence will extend far beyond.  –Yoshida Kenkō, Essays in Idleness, translated by Meredith McKinney…

Today’s One-Liner (#38)

But I want to seek out a means of going to heaven by a little way, a way that is very straight, very short, and totally new. –Saint Thérèse of Lisieux, Story of a Soul